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<h2>Budget Share of Food for Spanish Households </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>a cross-section from 1980
</p>
<p><EM>number of observations</EM> :  23972
</p>
<p><EM>observation</EM> :  households
</p>
<p><EM>country</EM> :  Spain
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(BudgetFood)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataframe containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>wfood</dt><dd><p>percentage of total expenditure which the household has spent on food</p>
</dd>
<dt>totexp</dt><dd><p>total expenditure of the household</p>
</dd>
<dt>age</dt><dd><p>age of reference person in the household</p>
</dd>
<dt>size</dt><dd><p>size of the household</p>
</dd>
<dt>town</dt><dd><p>size of the town where the household is placed  categorised into 5 groups: 1 for small towns, 5 for big ones</p>
</dd>
<dt>sex</dt><dd><p>sex of reference person (man,woman)</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>


<p>Delgado, A.  and  Juan  Mora (1998) &ldquo;Testing non&ndash;nested semiparametric models : an application to Engel curves specification&rdquo;, <EM>Journal of Applied Econometrics</EM>, <B>13(2)</B>, 145&ndash;162.
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<h3>References</h3>


<p>Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : <a href="http://jae.wiley.com/jae/">http://jae.wiley.com/jae/</a>.
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<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>Index.Source</code>, <code>Index.Economics</code>, <code>Index.Econometrics</code>, <code>Index.Observations</code></p>


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